• Call for Pension Reform

    Updated: 2011-10-27 22:28:27
    Pension reforms need to be made now to spread long -term risks between government, employers and individuals.     That is the message of the Melbourne Mercer Global Pension Index just published in the UK.    The Index objectively assesses the retirement income systems in 16 countries across the Americas, Europe and Asia Pacific. The results show that [...]

  • Retirement Financial Planning and Preferred Stocks

    Updated: 2011-10-27 17:38:01
    Bonds are not the only method retirees can generate income; preferred shares are viable options as well to consider in your retirement financial planning. Preferred stock is a class of ownership inside a organization which generally has priority over typical stockholders on revenue and assets in the case of liquidation. Even though preferred stocks are [...]

  • Retirement Plan Penalties and Taxes When You Withdraw

    Updated: 2011-10-27 00:24:02
    If you planned to retire in 5 years, but have hit hard times, you may be tempted to dip into one of your retirement plan accounts. Don’t unduly damage your retirement plan by randomly grabbing a distribution. Qualified retirement plans such as the 401(k), 403(b), 457, and an IRAs offer tax-deferred compounding of your savings [...]

  • IRA Distributions – Rules For Beneficiaries

    Updated: 2011-10-26 18:52:18
    By: Clay Wyatt If you plan to leave your IRA to your beneficiaries (or if you die before it is empty), the IRS has specific rules for IRA distributions for your beneficiaries. Depending on each beneficiary’s relation to you and how you go about listing your primary and contingent beneficiaries, the rules on IRA distributions [...]

  • High Yield Bonds in Your Retirement Financial Planning

    Updated: 2011-10-25 20:54:49
    Most retirement financial planning  advisers will advise you to invest your pension money in a varied selection of shares, because over a long period of time, this kind of  portfolio could possibly outperform a varied collection of bonds. That could be great guidance, if you have time and energy to ride out stock exchange volatility. [...]

  • Social Security Announces 3.6 Percent Benefit Increase for 2012

    Updated: 2011-10-21 22:08:09
    Cost-of-Living Adjustment is First Since 2009 Monthly Social Security and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits for more than 60 million Americans will increase 3.6 percent in 2012, the Social Security Administration announced.  The 3.6 percent cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) will begin with benefits that nearly 55 million Social Security beneficiaries receive in January 2012.  Increased payments [...]

  • Social Security Recipients Are Expected to Get COLA in 2012

    Updated: 2011-10-18 21:29:28
    For the past two years those who receive Social Security Disability and Retirement have not received a cost of living increase to their benefit amount. But in 2012 this is expected to change, when an announcement is made this week and will be effective starting this January. This increase is because for the first time [...]

  • Social Security Expands Compassionate Allowances Conditions

    Updated: 2011-10-17 20:53:56
    Michael J. Astrue, Commissioner of Social Security, announced  on October 13, 2011, 13 new Compassionate Allowances conditions involving the immune system and neurological disorders.   The Compassionate Allowances program fast-tracks disability decisions to ensure that Americans with the most serious disabilities receive their benefit decisions within days instead of months or years.   Commissioner Astrue made the [...]

  • More Conditions Added to Social Security Compassionate Allowance Program

    Updated: 2011-10-17 19:54:56
    New York Social Security Disability Lawyer Blog Published by New York Social Security Disability and Long Term Disability Attorney Insler Hermann , LLP Home Firm Website About Us Practice Areas Contact Us Previous Home More Conditions Added to Social Security Compassionate Allowance Program October 17, 2011 Posted In : By Insler Hermann on October 17, 2011 1:54 PM Permalink Comments 0 Earlier this month , the Social Security Administration SSA announced that it's expanding the list of conditions for which Social Security disability benefits claimants may seek a Compassionate Allowance , a program that fast tracks certain claims based on the nature of the claimant's . disability Social Security handles more than three million disability applications each year and we need to keep innovating

  • PETS HELPING DISABLED KIDS

    Updated: 2011-10-17 03:58:35
      Canines for Disabled Kids (CDK) is a non-profit organization connecting children with disabilities to canine-assistance programs and resources. The CDK mission is twofold, first, to help families with disabled children obtain service dogs through education, financial aid and advocacy and second, to make families aware that these resources even exist.   There are approximately [...]

  • Social Security Benefits Husband and Wife

    Updated: 2011-10-15 01:23:09
    Can a Wife or Husband draw from the other’s Social Security benefits? Yes. Let’s look at a few different situations.  Note that we have no intent to be sexist but to make these examples clear, we have assumed that the husband has earned more than the wife. Wife has never worked with example Your current [...]

  • New Website, the Medicaid Reference Desk, provides help to the disabled

    Updated: 2011-10-10 03:10:21
    The Medicaid Reference Desk is a tool to help people with intellectual and developmental disabilities find out what Medicaid can offer them. The Medicaid Reference Desk is located at:  http://www.thedesk.info/ ©2011 Virginia Disability Law Blog. All Rights Reserved..

  • Social Security Tax – How to Pay Less

    Updated: 2011-10-04 23:23:43
    This post is about the taxes that retirees pay on their social security income and how to reduce it. Prior to 1984, all social security income was tax free.   But the government decided it needed revenue and assessed a social security tax. The social security tax does not apply to the majority of social [...]

  • Default Retirement Age Ends in the UK

    Updated: 2011-10-03 19:10:20
    In the past employers in the UK have been able to force staff to retire at age 65, which the Federation of Small Businesses [FSB] felt helped their members to plan ahead and manage changes to the workforce. However effective 1 October 2011 the default retirement age program will defunct, taking away what Age UK’s [...]

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